Library Science

Library science (often termed library studies or library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.

Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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Cher connard
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Early Thirties
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
The Last Sane Woman
The Wickedest
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
The Library: A Fragile History
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Foundations of Library and Information Science
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction
Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
Library: An Unquiet History
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (Library & Information Science Text)
Library and Information Center Management
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
Developing Library and Information Center Collections
The Library Book
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
Management Basics for Information Professionals

Arthur Miller
The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Arthur Miller

Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.
James Turner, Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian

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